Dough-divider.



DOUGH DIVIDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY25. 190s.

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HOUTEN, a citizen of the United States, reas each-measured portion is acted on it is adsiding at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, in the vanced much more rapidly than the portions county of Dutchess and State of New York, remaining on the conveyer and is consehave invented certain new and use Imquently separated therefrom by a distance provements in Dough-Dividers; and I do depending upon the relative speed of the hereby declare the following to be a full, movements. clear, and eXact description ofthe same, ref- The lower feed-roller is preferably someerence being had to the accompanying drawwhat below the level of the top of the conings, forming a part of this specification, and veyer and runs very close to or in contact to the letters of reference marked thereon. therewith, and both feed-rollers are prefer- This invention relates to improvements in ably provided with scrapers efor preventing dough-dividers of that type wherein a numadherence of the dough.

her of measured portions 0 dough are si- Below the feed-rollers and inposition to multaneously ejected from the measuring receive the dough therefrom is a second conmechanism-as illustrated, for instance, in veyer, preferably also in the form ofa belt F, my prior patent, No. 788,123, dated April and on which the dough is carried off into 25, 1905the object of the present invention convenient position to be removed by the atbeing to provide for separating the measured tendant or attendants. The conveyer-belt ,ortions from each other a sufficient distance F also runs on rollers or pulleys f and has a to prevent any possibility of coalescence an movement somewhat more rapid than the to present the said portions to the attendant conveyer C in order that the separated poror attendants in succession separated s tions of dough may be kept separate ciently to facilitate handling, &c. The feed-rollers are preferably connected Referring to the accompanying drawings, by gearing,(indicated at G,) andthe conveyer- Figure 1 is a ont sectional elevation of a belts are connected therewith by gearing portion of a dough-divider, showing'the presand I, said gearing being so proportioned as ent improvements. Fig. 2 is a section in a to give the differential speeds desired.

0 plane at right angles to Fig. 1 and looking in operation the portions of dough as they toward the right. move'into position to be acted on by the Similar letters of reference in both figures feed-rollers are qu'ckly drawn away om the indicate like parts. succeeding portions and dropped onto the The measuring-head (indicated by the second conveyer. They are carried away by letter A) corresponds to the measuring-head the latter in widely-spaced relation to each of the before-mentioned patented machine, other. and, as will be understood from said patent, It is preferred in practice to so time the it is given an intermittent movement to movements that the second conveyer will bring its measuring-chambers a alternately carry a practically-continuous succession o 40 into receiving and discharging positions. portions, all spaced apart approximately The dough is subdivided into the desired equal distances, wherebythe attendants may number of measured portions by the partiwork to the greatest advantage and no time tions b, all of such measured portions, howbe lost in placing the portions in packingever, being discharged ,simultaneously by receptacles or working the same in preparathe advance of the plungers B tion for baking.

In order to present the measured portions Having thus described my invention, what in succession to the attendant, a conveyer, I claim as new, and desire to secure by etpreferably in the form of a belt O, is arrange ters Patent, is- 1 in position to receive the dough discharged 1. Inadough-divider,the combinationwith from the measuring-head and to convey the a measuring-head and means for simultanesame to one side or with the several portions ously discharging a number of measured porin succeeding order. The conveyer belt tions of dough therefrom, of a conveyer onto usually runs over rollers or pulleys D and at which the measured portions are discharged, one end discharges the dough to feed-rollers a feed-roll having a higher surface spee E. The feed-rollers E rotate in opposite dithan the conveyer for separating the meas- UNITED FRAN K HENRY STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VAN HOUTEN, or FISHKILL-ON-THE-HUDSON, NEW YORK.

DOUGH-DlVlDER.

No. 835,207. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 6, 1906.

Application filed May 25,1906. Serial No- 318,711.

rections and at a greater surface speed than the surface speed of the conveyer, whereby To all whom it may concern/.- Be it known that I, FRANK HENRY VAN with the measuring-head and means for simultaneously discharging therefrom a number ;substantially as described. of measured portions of do ugh, of a con- 2. In a dough-dlv1der, the combination veyer-belt onto Which said portions are dis- 5 With a measuring-head and means for simulcharged from the measuring-head, a second taneously discharging a number of measconveyer-belt and a feed ured portions of dough therefrom, of a consaid conveyer-belts, the feed-roll and second veyer-belt onto which the measured portions conveyer-belt having a higher surface speed are discharged, a pair of feed-rolls to which than the first-mentioned conveyer-belt. Io the ortions are delivered in succession t e donveyer-belt and a second. conveyer- FLANK HENRY VAN HOUTEN' belt to which the measured portions are de- Witnesses: livered in succession by the feed-rolls.

J. E. VAN HoUTEN, In a dough-divider the combination 0. VAN NOSTRAN.

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